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Author Maman, Aaron.

Title Comparative Semitic philology in the Middle Ages : from Saʻadiah Gaon to Ibn Barūn (10th-12th c.) / by Aharon Maman ; translated into English by David Lyons
Published Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 497 pages)
Series Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; v. 40
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 40.
Contents Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MOTIVES OF THE COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY -- THE FUNDAMENTS OF COMPARISON AND THE RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED -- EXPLICIT COMPARISONS -- THE IMPLICIT COMPARISON -- THE AIMS OF LANGUAGE COMPARISON -- LANGUAGE COMPARISON IN TREATISES TRANSLATED INTO HEBREW -- RAV SAʻADIAH GAʼON -- R. JUDAH IBN QURAYSH (IN REMARK DUNASH B. TAMĪM) -- DAVID B. ABRAHAM ALFĀSI'S COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY -- MENAḤEM B. SARUQ -- DUNASH BEN LABRAT -- RABBI JUDAH ḤAYYŪJ -- R. JONAH IBN JANĀḤ -- HAI GAᵓON, ABŪ-L-FARAJ, SAMUEL HANAGID, AND ABRAHAM HABAVLI -- MOSHEH HAKOHEN IBN GIKATILLA, JUDAH B. BALʻAM, AND ISAAC B. BARŪN -- SYNOPSIS AND CONCLUSION -- THE CHART OF COMPARISONS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX -- STUDIES IN SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
Summary This volume deals with medieval comparative Semitic philology (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) as practised by Hebrew philologists in the Arabic speaking lands, from Iraq to Spain, discussing its development through the generations, its technics and its theoretical basis. This research is based upon an analysis of over ten thousand occurrences of comparisons in linguistic works, biblical commentaries and the like, made by fourteen Hebrew scholars from the 10th-12th centuries CE, among them Sa?adiah Gaon, Judah b. Quraysh, David b. Abraham Alfasi, Jonah b. Janah and Isaac b. Bar?n. Several aspects of this comparisons are presented and studied here for the first time
Analysis Hebrew language - Grammar, Comparative - Arabic - History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-489) and index
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Subject Hebrew language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic -- History
Hebrew language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Aramaic -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Hebrew.
Hebrew language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Arabic
Semitische talen.
Vergelijkende grammatica.
Hebreeuws.
Arabisch.
Aramees.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047404750
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